Editing Lord Crump

|image=[[File:PMTTYDNS Lord Crump Artwork.png|250px]]<br>Artwork from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)

'''Lord Crump''', also known as '''X-Naut Black''' and '''Four-Eyes''' when disguised, is the second-in-command of the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]] (second only to [[Grodus]]) and the secondary antagonist in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and its [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]. He fights [[Mario]] four times, two of them while controlling his personal robot, [[Magnus von Grapple]]. He also often summons the [[X-Nauts (platoon)|X-Naut platoon]] when he is angry.

In Chapter 2 of the game, Grodus sends him and the [[Three Shadows]] to [[Boggly Woods]], knowing a Crystal Star is located somewhere within [[the Great Tree]]. Knowing the Crystal Star belongs to the [[Puni]]es in the tree, Crump and his men imprison the Punies, team up with the Punies' enemies, the [[Jabbi]]es, and perform a search throughout the tree. Their search for the Star does not go well when Mario, Goombella, [[Koops]], [[Flurrie]], and [[Punio]] interfere with his plans, liberate the Punies and fight the Jabbies in a battle for the tree. After Mario and the Punies find the Emerald Star, Crump steals it and activates a time bomb. As Mario and company reach the entrance to the tree, they see that the [[Puni elder]] has blocked off Crump's escape, giving them the opportunity to force Crump to deactivate the time bomb. However, he refuses to hand the Emerald Star over, instead activating [[Magnus von Grapple]] to attack in an attempt to destroy Mario and company and make his getaway with the Emerald Star. His attempt to defeat Mario and company proves totally unsuccessful and Magnus von Grapple is destroyed instead. Upon the defeat of Magnus von Grapple, Lord Crump and his men are driven out of the Great Tree, and the Puni elder gives Mario and his team the Emerald Star as a reward.

[[File:PMTTYD Twilight Town battle.png|thumb|left|X-Nauts vs. [[Bowser's Minions|Koopa Clan]]]]

It is not long after the events at Keelhaul Key that Lord Crump returns to [[Twilight Town]] in search of the [[Superbombomb]]. He manages to find it, and gloats over how it will help him with the search for the Crystal Stars. Unfortunately, [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]] are around and overhear him. This results in a battle against the X-Nauts and the [[Bowser's Minions|Koopa Clan]] that almost begins, until Bowser uses his [[Fire Breath]] to set off the Superbombomb, blasting both armies into submission. This is the only time Crump gets to meet Bowser.  

Lord Crump reappears at the end of the X-Naut Fortress where he attacks Mario and friends in the [[Magnus von Grapple 2.0]], which he claims to have at least a dozen new abilities. Mario defeats Crump and sends him into space. Grodus reveals that the results of the battle were irrelevant for his plans and admits that he tricked Lord Crump.

 

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|Jpn=ペケダー

|JpnR=Pekedā

|JpnM=Derived from「ペケ」(''peke'', meaning "useless" or an "X" mark) and possibly Dutch suffix ''-der'' (an alternate form of English suffix "-er")

|Dut2M=Lieutenant Crump

|Jpn=メガネさん

|JpnR=Megane-san

|JpnM=Mr. Glasses

==Notes==

*If Lord Crump is frozen or put to sleep during the second phase of his third fight (on [[Keelhaul Key]]), he will not board the X-Nauts as they perform their giant ball attack, but the attack will work as normal.

*The beginning of Lord Crump's theme (titled "Invasion of the X-Nauts!" in the remake) uses the death soundbit from the {{wp|Atari 2600}} version of ''{{wp|Pac-Man (Atari 2600)|Pac-Man}}''.

**In the original game, his theme only plays during two cutscenes in Chapter 2. In the remake, it also plays while speaking to him in the post-Chapter 5 Bowser intermission and during the cut to the X-Nauts in Poshley Heights when Mario reads Goombella's email at the end of the game.